ZenErik wrote:Neat. Seems like yours will be a bit more powerful than mine. What'd it set you back?
I just got some zip ties so I can further tidy up the inside of mine. Thought about LED fans too, lol. But not now.
After taxes, the moose, 2 year replacement plan on the gpu (that is going to be used to upgrade to a 290 in a year or so) and the DVD drive I had to just run out and buy (it's always something right?) it came to 1135 but I've got some rebates so let's just say 1100. I probably could have done it cheaper if I had shopped online but this thread and your build made me impatient.
Speaking of cable management I just pulled out some hdmi cables I got from amazon a while back and they are held together with a couple of velcro straps I'll use for cable management. There was also a 90° hdmi adaptor I'm planning on throwing on the back of the computer.
Yea. For me I am worried about getting decent quality LED fans. And if I do get them, it means more disassembling for me, haha. Pretty sure I won't be able to change my 140mm without either removing my heatsink or taking out the whole mobo.
But at least with the zip ties I got I should be able to make my cabling almost pristine.
Holy shit are the reboots fast with this solid state, the windows logo doesn't have time to fully load up.
The corsair case I got actually has 3 white LED fans, 2 120mm in the front and a 200mm on the side panel. I'm just glad there's button to control them on the front because I can see them getting annoying fast.
I didn't take any pics while putting it together but I will get some up in the next day or two.
So I was supposed to get Battlefield 4 with my video card anyone know how I'm supposed to get it? I didn't get a code or anything with my purchase so I think I might be out of luck.
Oh and I'm flex_wood on steam if anyone wants to add me even though I don't have any games yet. Or if someone wants to give me some games that'd be cool too.
You probably need to be handed a coupon from wherever you got the card. Microcenter? They didn't give me any of the coupons I was supposed to get either. To make up for that I went back and asked for them twice. And got bonus ones that I wasn't supposed to get with my card as well. No BF4 though. That'd be a nice treat.
ZenErik wrote:You probably need to be handed a coupon from wherever you got the card. Microcenter? They didn't give me any of the coupons I was supposed to get either. To make up for that I went back and asked for them twice. And got bonus ones that I wasn't supposed to get with my card as well. No BF4 though. That'd be a nice treat.
Yea at microcenter, the sales guy said they were out of coupons but I don't know if that's bullshit or not so I'm kinda at a loss. I guess I'll try emailing him since he gave me his card but I'm not getting my hopes up. I'm kinda bummed out about it.
Earlier last month, my friend finally snagged his parts, and we sat down and built the box up. Lanned a bit when it was finished. It's pretty close to my system, except he tossed a 4GB GTX760 in his. It's pretty nice.
Sad Friday night activities. After hanging out with a friend I decide to try once again to make my case even more tidy.
Also finally took a look at what is making the most noise in my case. My CPU cooler fan is by far the loudest. MUCH MUCH louder than anything else. I may look into a quieter cooler eventually. I don't even mind if the CPU temperature goes up a few degrees to achieve that. As long as it's only like 5C or less.
No BF4 though. That'd be a nice treat.